ARTICLES Michael D. Coogan. “The Shepherd of Hermas” . The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible Vol. 2, 317-22. Oxford University Press, 2011. A short article for a two-volume desk reference on all aspects relating to the Bible and its related literature. This piece is on a writing that used to be part of the NT canon -- a writer in second century Rome who used visions and heavenly revelations to descry the injustices of wealthy bishops and leaders and call them to repent and care for widows and the poor. Allison, Jr., Dale C. Allison, Jr., Volker Leppin, et al. “The New Testament in the Shepherd of Hermas” and “The New Testament in Ignatius of Antioch”. Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. (forthcoming) These two pieces are part of a multi-volume series that takes up the Bible and its influence on literature and culture. Here Harry takes up a second century martyr, Ignatius of Antioch and the Shepherd of Hermas and show how they used the NT. It turns out that Ignatius knew and used 1 Cor extensively, that he probably knew Ephesians, and possibly some Gospel traditions relating especially to Matthew and John, but probably not any Gospel (at least his letters can’t really show that he did). Hermas used ideas very much at home in second century Judaism—a long and rambling text that shows itself most closely related to the Book of James, especially in its concerns to challenge the abuses of the rich. “The Church of Caesar”. Bible Study Magazine. (July/August 2012) One of a series of brief expositions of Revelation for Bible study in parishes. This piece relates Revelation’s call for resistance to the Roman Empire to the challenge of the Gospel to contemporary Christianity too at home in in our socio-economic order of First-World capitalism. Other short articles include pieces by cutting edge Revelation experts who use their expertise to help with the study of Revelation.
OTHER PROJECTS Other things on the go for Harry Maier include a volume coming out on Ideal Community in Early Christianity, which has to do with Space and Early Christian Ideals of Community. This volume argues that where Christians met very much affected what ideals they imagined for themselves. In addition, another piece is on intertexuality and the Book of Revelation—ie what texts influenced Revelation (OT, etc) and how did Revelation in turn influence other later texts. Harry is also working on a piece that looks at popular uses of the printing press in the Peasants’ Revolt here around Erfurt ca. 1525 and how images from Revelation were used in posters to show how the German princes were the Beast prophesied in Rev 13. His argument is that this prompted Luther to use Dürer’s woodcuts of the Apocalypse in his German Bible—a spiritualisation that matched his own interpretation of the Apocalypse. The third piece that is coming out is about the role of clothing in creating Christian identity in the second century for a volume coming out on Individualisation and the Self in the Second Century. Another piece coming out is an encyclopedia on Christianity, Archaeology, and Art which has to do with the role of households in the survival and spread of heretical movements in the 4th and 5th centuries. These various pieces represent Harry’s interests in several fields, all of which centre around social history.
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